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Trinidad Sounds

Trinidad music all week on Sound Travels. Perhaps no better choice for a week headlined by Mardi Gras and celebrated more broadly as Carnival. Trinidad particularly enjoys her Carnival and on Wednesday I played a variety of styles popular on this Caribbean island. From the Indian influences of Mungal to the Trini-reggae of Brother Resistance or vintage calypso from Roaring Lion or even the soca-pop sound of Sugar Daddy's big tune "Sweet Soca Music," Trinidad has many styles perfect for Carnival. Here's what I played...

Let's start the new year with a big fat sorry... Sorry for not getting this up earlier, but here's the second part of the Sound Travels year-end tradition, a best of global music releases from the past year. You know how it is with the...

2014 is almost a rap, which means many things on many levels but as a DJ, it's definitely time to sum up the situation in the form of a best-of list. That's exactly what we've done here on Sound Travels and I've got part one of the top 16...

Jamaica is one of the world's musical hotbeds; but make no doubt about the fact that without the record label and studio known as Studio One, the story of Jamaican music would be far different. While we will never know what would've been,...